Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'd best give you your supper before he comes back , had n't I ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'd better give her a ring , I suppose . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 'd better give this a bit of a read . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better give her a hand or she 'll sulk . |
| 5 | Actually — ’ she frowned at her watch as she followed the other girl to the door ‘ — I definitely think I 'd better give the coffee a miss . |
| 6 | I think I 'd better give you a course of broad-spectrum antibiotics . |
| 7 | I 'd better give it to you because he has |
| 8 | Certainly , judging by his appearance as he lay on the ground , I did not give much for his chances . |
| 9 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 10 | I did not give much thought to the possibility of their innocence and in fact thought that they were both involved with Mathews in the crime . |
| 11 | ‘ No , Constanza , ’ Ludovico replied , ‘ I did not give you a shock . |
| 12 | You came here once before asking questions and perhaps I did not give you the best answers . ’ |
| 13 | I hope that I did not give the impression that a Bill could be amended in any way at all as that is not so . |
| 14 | I 'm just sorry that I did n't give it to you sooner . |
| 15 | If I did n't give him a square meal on Monaghan Day he 'd drink himself stupid in Mohill . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Since I did n't give them any praise , Annie and Lizzie had to do the praising instead . |
| 17 | Ken wanted to rake David to this thing on his own and David , being very , very cold — he hates demonstrations of emotion — and me being very Mediterranean , I told him that as far as I was concerned , I did n't give a fuck about his award or seeing him receive it , but I thought it was a bit much that his mother could n't be there because it was a public occasion and it was a time when , without having to speak to her , he could be nice to her , as every mother loves to be there for that kind of thing . |
| 18 | ‘ Anyway , I did n't give it to you so you could go drippy on me . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't give you permission to leave . |
| 20 | I did n't give him anything then . ’ |
| 21 | Sure I have to , Nellie , for if I did n't give it a redd up at least once in a while he 'd have the place like a right midden . ’ |
| 22 | A month ago I did n't give him a dog 's chance , but a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to X-ray . ’ |
| 23 | I did n't give them a second glance . |
| 24 | I did n't give them names , which was just as well because they both had to go to be killed . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent . |
| 26 | ‘ I did n't give him much . |
| 27 | I did n't give up ; I wanted to get my money 's worth . |
| 28 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
| 29 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 30 | I did n't give the matter much thought , specially when Clare remarked that same evening that she had heard Father tell Mother , ‘ Do n't worry . |